The Nord Deutscher Lloyd Steamship Co. v. Ingebregsten

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

In an action by an administratrix to recover-damages resulting from the death of her intestate, it appeared that the deceased was a stevedore in the employ of the defendant and was killed while unloading one of the defendant’s steamships at the dock in Hoboken. The circumstances of his death were as follows : The ship’s cargo, consisting of bags of rice weighing about two hundred and fifty pounds each,, was hoisted out of the hold by means of a wire rope fifteen-sixteenths of an inch in diameter, called a “ hanger,” suspended from one of the…